Whenever a Japanese start to praise me, I worry.

And I am getting a lot of praise lately. 

Welcome to the upsidedown topsy turvy world of counterintuitive Japanese thinking.

Everyone else is doing it, so why not us?

Recently I was told I do bad things and break promises. I am sure I do.

I wrote 39 blogs last year - I’d better rename this my Weekly! It was hard to get the motivation to write early in the year. Interestingly, I had two major flare-ups where I briefly went to writing Daily: during the 5-week Alexander Science course with Tim & Patrick; and around the time of the Berlin Congress.

Huh! I concluded that this “have a purpose” thing really works.

Often my best ideas occur while running.

Then it’s handy to have an iWatch - I lift my arm, push the big red button, and start recording. As members of the phylum Chordata, our primary identity is as a ‘mover’, so it’s no surprise that moving optimises your cognitive function. Once - after a particularly effective lesson - my precious teacher Marjorie Barstow looked at her student as she walked elegantly across the room and remarked:

“Now you look like you know something.”

We all laughed because she did, which was the surprise.